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JOIIN FLINDALL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 697,958, dated April.15, 1902. Application filed September 12, 1901. Serial No. 75,147, (Nomodel.)

To ft2/'Z whom zit may concern.-

Be itknown that I, JOHN FLINDALL, of Chicago, in the State ofIllinois,have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Toys, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to mechanical toys; and the object of myimprovement is to provide a toy having a platform with sockets orkeepers arrangedin a row around its margin by which a series of pins orother figures may be supported in erect position, to provide a series ofstops for choking and opening the sockets, and to provide means foroperating the stops in such manner that a row of iigures may be erectedand supported in the consecutive sockets along one side and end of orhalf-Way around the platform; but the further extension of the row oferect figures will cause the gures previously erected to beprogressively knocked out of their socketsand fall down upon theplatform. I have attained this object by the `construction illustratedin the accompanying drawings in Which- Figure l is a perspective view ofatoy containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken 'justbelow the board or platform. Fig. 3 is avertical section of the completedevice, taken at the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail showing afragment of a detached part in perspective, and Fig. 5 is a detailshowing a form of standing pin in per spective.

In the drawings, A is a board orplatlorm provided with a row of holes aaround at the margin. Said bgard is secured to and forms the top orcover of a shallow box B,\vhose bot tom is provided with a row of holesl), which register with the holes a. Alternatinglevers C are supportedon a wire or rod c, fastened to the end pieces b' of the box, so as tosupport said levers at or near the center and allow them to vibrateindividually. The ends of these levers are provided with a hole c', inwhich are loose pins C'. Said pins enter and work loosely in the holesrt Z1. Stop-pegs o2, through holes in said pins C', prevent theirdropping out of place or` being projected through the holes d b by themovement of the levers. A series of alternating levers D, simil larlysupported on a wire or rod d, fastened at its ends to thc side pieces oftho box, is

provided for the holes a l) at the ends of the box, the support cl beingarranged oli' from or above the support c a sufficient distance to allowthe levers O and D to Work Withoutinterference with one another. Thelevers U at the ends of the box are provided with a slot, as shown atd', Figs. 2, 3, for the pins O at the ends to work in withoutinterfering with the levers.

The pins C are the stops operated by the alternatinglevers C D, so as toalternately choke and open the holes a, which serve as the sockets orkeepers for the standing pins E or other iigures, which are to beinstalled on the platform A by having their ends set in the keepers,l

which serve as the means for holding them in erect position, there beinga sufileient number of the standing pins to fill all of said keepers.They iit in loosely and rest upon the ends of the pins C' in saidkeepers, as illustrated at e, Fig. 3, so that one beingnstalled at e anattempt to install another at e' would depress the pin C' at that pointand by means of the lever D correspondingly elevate pin C at e, (thecorresponding opposite point,) and thus lift out the one there and causeit to fall over on the platform. Each of the alternatnglevers OD, withits pins C', operates in the same Way to automatically choke the keeperon one side by the opening of the one directly opposite.-

It should be observed that the two series or groups of levers C D andthe pins C connected therewith are arranged relatively to `the cover andbottom of the box so that the sockets may be choked consecutively alongone side and end of the platform, While simultaneously leaving openthose along the opposite side and end, and that the Iigures may besupported erect in a row in the open' sockets, but that furtherextending the row, which can be done by pressing the figures down uponthe stops in the closed sockets, will cause the figures previouslyerected to be progressively knocked out of their sockets and fall downupon the platform. The alternating levers inclosed in the box under theplatform are hidden from View, so that the cause of the falling isobscure.

What I claim is- 1. A toy comprising a shallow box providedwith socketsextended in a row around at the margin of its cover, stops adapted tochoke and open the sockets and two groups of transversely-arrangedlevers mounted Within the box and connected with the stops, thearrangement of the levers and stops relatively to the row of socketsbeing as specified.

2. A toy comprising a shallow box provided with registering holes init-stop and bottom extended in a row around at the margin, stops adaptedto work in said holes, and two groups ot transversely-arrangedandi-idividuallyoperative levers mounted on fulcra located in dierentplanes within the box, each group of levers being connected with aportion of the stops arranged at opposite ends of the group as specied.

3. A toy comprising a shallow box: provided with sockets extended in avrow at the margin ofv its cover, stops adapted to choke and open thesockets, two groups of transverselyarranged levers mounted within thebox and connected with the stops, the arrangement of the levers andstops relatively to the row of sockets being as shown, and means forlimiting the movement so as to prevent the prejection of the stops abovethe upper surface of the cover as specified.

JOHN FLlNDALL.

Witnesses:

WALTER VAN SANDS, ANNIE M. ADAMS.

